Magazine for machines for packaging cigarettes and other staff-shaped articles



March 29, A Q Q MAGAZINE FOR MACHINES FOR PACKAGING CIGARETTES AND OTHER STAFF SHAPED ARTICLES Filed July 22; 1931 nfer/17K WWW Patented Mar. 29, 1932.

UNITED STATES GUSTAF oRs'rnoM, or ALSTEN, SWEDEN, ASSIG'ZQOR- -I O mnmnngnrennn. ARE-HHS MEKANISKA VERKSTAD, or STOCKHOLM, swnnn w, A eonponn'rroxor SWEDEN MAGAZINE non MACHINES ron PACKAGING cleaumsrmnornm SUSHI-SHARED ARTICLES Application filed July 22, 1931, Serial No.

In machines for packaging cigarettes and other staff-shaped articles the cigarettes generally are placed in a magazine, at the bottom of which they are distributed into upright partitions from which the cigarettes are then pushed in the number to be introduced into a box or the like for the packaging of the same. In order to effect an unloading of the cigarettes located above the said partitions, so that the cigarettes may enter the partitions more easily, accelerated, if wanted, by the partition walls being put into lateral movement, the magazine is contracted at its bottom and communicates with a chamber, the bottom of which inclinesto- Ward the partitions, so that the cigarettes move down and are distributed above the partitions. This invention relates to a device for rendering the said movement and distribution of the cigarettes more uniform and at the same time prevent the cigarettes from occupying an oblique position and thereby causing an interruption of the feeding of the cigarettes into one or more partitions. This object is gained by the provision of flexible means sustaining the cigarettes upwards in the said distributing chamber. At a suitable form of execution of the invention the said means consists of two chains which extend along the distributing chamber at such a level, that they bear against the uppermost cigarettes in the same and partake in the changes of the height of the bulk of cigarettes.

In the accompanying drawing the figure is a diagrammatic section of as much of a cigarette-magazine as is necessary to explain the invention.

1 is the magazine. For causing the cigarettes to move downward from the magazine into a lower distributing chamber 2 a roller 3 is journaled at the contracted, lower part of the magazine, which is rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow by the driving shaft of the machine and through a suitable motion transmitting device, partially shown. At the bottom of the chamber 2 a number of channels 5 is provided, inthe present case ten partitions, which are formed bymeans of upright plates or partitions 4. The disa'wamn; Awash m the cigarettes n; the channels, the walls 4 are; reciprocated in a lateral, sense in any now muitabl mannerb P vided at the bottom, leaves free the lowerrowof cigarettesso, that, it may. be,

pushed out byj'a piston or the like but retainsthenext superimposed rows of ciga ret tes cigarettes thusmoved from the partit ons may enteracompressor chamber (not shown), in which they are forced toward each other and constitute, a compact row.

The cigarettes are then dintrodu'ced into a boxor thelikei i i i In order now to cause the cigarettes to move down from themagazine and to be uniformly distributed in the chamber 2 a number of chains 8, for instance two chains, are located inthe chamber which chains extend longitudinally of the chamber and have such a position that they bear against the uppermost cigarettes. The said chains therefore exert in a certain degree a retarding action on the cigarettes, so that the cigarettes do not move down into the chamber in heaps but are distributed more uniformly in the chamber 2 and above the partitions 5. For that reason there is always a layer of cigarettes above all partitions, so that all partitions are filled up with cigarettes.

In addition hereto the chains 8 prevent the cigarettes from occupying an oblique position. Such an oblique position would cause an interruption of the feeding of cigarettes into one or more partitions and thereby disturb the packaging operation.

According to the drawing one end of the chains, which are fixed to hooks 10 or the like, is placed round the roller 3 and then fixed to a hook 9 or the like. the chains are made in the rollers. Owing to this arrangement the chains constitute tangents to the circumference of the roller or, so to say, a continuation of the said periphery, which contributes to a uniform passing of the cigarettes down into the chamber 2.

Grooves for Instead of chains any other flexible members, for instance cords 0r strings may be used.

1. The'combination of a magazine for cigarettes and other stafl-shaped articles in machines for packaging the same, a lateral chamber nto WhlCll the-c1garettesv-p ass, and' '1 a number of flexible sustaining members located above the distributing chamber and longitudinally. of the same; means securing h v the ends of said flexible members permitting the medial portions of the latter to bear loosely against the uppermost cigarettes in said chamber in order to cause the cigarettes, entering the distributingchamber to be uniformly distributed therein. V

2. The combination of a magazine for cigarettes and other staff-shaped articles in machines for packaging the same, the lateral chamber into which the cigarettes pass, ,a, number of flexible sustaining members located above the distributing chamber and longi: tudinally of the same and adapted to bear against the uppermostcigarettes, and a roller feeding the cigarettes into the distributing chamber, said roller being provided in its periphery with a groove for the flexible members and means securing the ends of the flexible members.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto aflixed my signature.

GUSTAF oRs'r oM. 

